12/29/17

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The Nigerian Army has carried re-deployment and posting of 399 principal officers, commanders and General Officers Commanding.
Most of the affected officers are from the Defence and Army Headquarters, Corps Commander and General Officers Commanding (GOCs).
Army spokesman Brig.-Gen Sani Usman said on Friday in Abuja that the redeployed officers included Maj.-Gen.l R.O Yusuf, Commander Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) who is now the Chief of Policy and Plans (Army).
Maj.-Gen. A.A Salihu, Chief of Defence Communications will now take over as Commander, TRADOC; Maj.-Gen. L.O Adeosun, from Defence Headquarters, has been appointed Commander, Infantry Corps.
With the posting , Maj.-Gen. C.M Abraham moved from 2 Division to Defence Intelligence Agency as Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, while Maj.-Gen. O.F Azinta replaced him as GOC 2 Division.
Maj.-Gen. U.S Yakubu takes over as Commandant of Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre, while Maj.-Gen. F.O Agugo is now Commander, Command Army Records.
Maj.-Gen. J.S Malu, Commander, Abuja Garrison is now the Corps Commander, Nigerian Army Engineers and Maj.-Gen. J.G.K. Myam, the Director of Operations is now the Commander, Army Headquarters Garrison, Abuja.
Others are Commander, Guards Brigade, Maj.-Gen. M.S. Yusuf is now GOC 6 Division, replacing Maj.-Gen. E.O. Udoh, who is reassigned to 81 Division as GOC.
Brig.-Gen. U.T. Musa is now the Commander, Guards Brigade.
Maj.-Gen. I.B.J. Okeke is now Corps Commander, Nigerian Army Medical Corps, while Maj.-Gen. K.O. Kadiri is now Group Managing Director, Nigerian Army Welfare Holding Limited/Guarantee.
Maj.-Gen. E.J. Enenche, Director Defence Information, is now Commandant, Army War College Nigeria, while Brig.-Gen. J.A. Agim takes over as Acting Director, Defence Information.
According to the posting, Brig.-Gen. J.T.E. Chukwu is now the Commandant of Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information.
Brig.-Gen. L.T. Omoniyi, Commander of the newly established 17 Brigade with Headquarters in Katsina and Brig.-Gen. E.T. Essien, Commander 29 Task Force Brigade.
Brig.-Gen. T.A. Lagbaja moved from the Headquarters, 8 Division to Army Headquarters as Acting Director Operations and Brig.-Gen. G.N. Mutkut takes over as Commander 7 Multinational Joint Task Force Brigade.
The army spokesman said all the postings and appointments would take effect from Jan. 2, 2018.
He explained that it was aimed at injecting new hands to further actualise the vision of the Chief of Army Staff which is “to have a professionally responsive Nigerian Army in the discharge of its Constitutional roles”.
Some senior officers were recently promoted to the ranks of Brigadier Generals and Major Generals.
Some have also left service on completion of mandatory years of service in the Army. LR News
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Abiodun Adisa, managing director of Picket Suites and Services Limited, who issued N130m dud cheques to one Okechukwu Enelamah,  will spend the New Year in jail.
It was not clear whether the case was referring to the minister of trade and industry, who bears the same name.
Adisa was sent to jail by a Federal High court in Lagos after he was docked by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), of the Nigeria Police Force.
The SFU alleged that Adisa issued 15 Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) cheques to Enelamah, who has connection with Fredliz Estates Limited, in settlement of his indebtedness to the company. The cheques were issued between August 22, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
All were dishonoured for lack of funds.
The SFU said the offences violated section 1(a)(i) of the Dishonoured Cheques (offences) Act Cap. D11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Adisa pleaded not guilty to the charge.
His lawyer, Mr. Adewale Olawoyin, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), pleaded with the court to grant his client bail in liberal terms, pending the trial.
Olawoyin (SAN) particularly informed the court to discountenance the allegation made by the prosecution that his client will not come to court if granted bail, saying that even when the accused was granted administrative bail, he travelled to America for medical treatment, and he willingly reported back to the police on his arrival.
Olawoyin (SAN) therefore, urged the court to grant his client’s bail application.
The prosecutor, Mr.Slevester Azubike, objected to the bail.
He told the court that police had filed a 15 paragraph counter-affidavit against the bail application, doubting the nature of the accused sickness and the medical report presented, having not emanated from any government hospital.
After listening to the submissions of both parties, Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari, ordered that the accused be remanded in prisons custody until 3 January 2018, for ruling on the bail application.
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UNILAG VC. Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe

Nigerian universities can rank best in Africa, if we can have a stable academic calendar, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, has said.
Ogundipe spoke with the Latest Reality Metro on Thursday in Lagos against the backdrop of incessant strikes by labour unions in the nation’s university system.
According to him, there is need for everyone, especially the key stakeholders in the education sector to look inward to ensure that crisis which gives rise to strikes are managed effectively.
“I make bold to say that universities, especially the first generation institutions in the country, can be ranked best in Africa if we can have a stable academic calendar.
“There is need for everyone to look inward and manage the crisis in the system effectively so that our university system can be ranked among the best in the world,’’ Ogundipe said.
He said that there was need for Nigerian Government too to take the running of universities and other related issues seriously.
“If you want to run a university, you should go all out and do it in line with the best practices.
“We are talking about the global ranking of universities, and here we are still grappling with the issues of strike.’’
The VC noted that such development do not speak well about the country as “lots of people around the world are reading and taking note of it’’.
He explained that most of the facilities that would guarantee conducive teaching and learning environment were being handled by non-academic (support) staff that were on strike.
Ogundipe added that with the strike, their academic staff counterparts and others were now forced to adjust to the situation.
“The strike has affected the operations of the university indirectly,’’ he said.
According to him, issues of power and water supply, the use of laboratory and others have taken their toll on the operations of the university.
“I am sure that the academic staff will be up to their assignments.
“This group of staff is not on strike; the classrooms are open, lectures are going on since the inception of NASU strike.
“Even, as we resumed on Dec. 27, lectures have started in most faculties in Unilag.
“The non-teaching staff has their grievances; the strike is a national strike and not a local one.
“To this effect, there is little the university authorities can do,’’ the vice-chancellor said.
LR News reports that the unions, under the aegis of JAC, had on Sept.11 declared an indefinite strike across all the federal universities over the non-implementation of an agreement they entered into in 2009 with the Federal Government
The strike was suspended while dialogue continues between the parties, only to embark on another strike on Dec. 5.
Mr Solomon Ugwoke, the National President of JAC, who also doubled as the president of SSANU, one of the striking unions, had stated that there was no going back on the strike.
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